TRAINING OF TRAINERS FOR THE ILO PORTWORKER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (PDP2)

The ILO, through the Sectoral Policies Department (SECTOR), promotes decent work by addressing social and labour issues in specific economic sectors, both at international and national levels. In 1994, SECTOR developed the Portworker Development Programme (PDP), a training package for the training of portworkers and their supervisors on safe working conditions and procedures, mainly covering containers operations. It comprises 30 training units (offering around 1000 hours of training) and supportive materials properly tested and validated, that are based on best international practice. These PDP materials should be delivered by specially trained instructors. SECTOR also developed a ILO PDP Chief Instructors’Manual with the purpose of training PDP instructors. In 2018, the ILO developed additional PDP Units covering the Transport, Handling and Storage of Bulk Cargoes and Bulk Terminals (covering iron ore, coal, bulk fertilizer, grain, bauxite and alumina). The Units are collectively known as the PDP 2 Units. The ILO PDP Chief Instructors’ Manual has also been subsequently revised to provide the pedagogical and professional knowledge to instructors teaching these PDP 2 Units. The PDP 2 and the revised Chief Instructors’ Manual incorporates a more user-friendly electronic format and layout based on recent IT advancement that provides additional advantages to PDP users/PDP instructors. This Training of Trainers (TOT) Course on PDP 2 has been designed in a way that it not only meets the requirements of new PDP users, but it also benefits existing PDP licensees. It was therefore highly recommended that existing PDP licensees participated in this Course with at least one of their PDP Instructors, who will then be able to update their fellow PDP instructors and effectively introduce the new PDP 2 materials in their respective organizations. The TOT Course on PDP 2 enabled instructors to deliver port-related training using the new PDP 2 materials. New or potential PDP licensees will be able to train suitable candidates as PDP Instructors. This TOT Course in PDP 2 aimed therefore at familiarizing participants in PDP 2 Units and qualifying participants as ILO PDP Instructors. Successful participants in the TOT Course are deemed qualified to teach PDP Units and overtime, and may be qualified by the appropriate National / Organization / Institutional Authority to become Chief Instructor to design and develop further PDP Units and to conduct the TOT Course. ITCILO and SECTOR, thanks to the financial and technical contribution of the Republic of Korea, have decided that the TOT Course be held through appropriate online learning platform as there remains a pressing need for the continuous education of portworkers for the enhancement of their professional knowledge, skills and attitude. OBJECTIVES • Identify and refer to the ILO port-related standards and guidelines; • Analyse the advisable institutional and organizational arrangements for the implementation of the PDP in a port or country; • Evaluate the philosophy, nature, form and structure of the PDP materials; • Plan, schedule, prepare, present, assess and evaluate PDP instructional sessions; • Adapt the contents and select the PDP units into an appropriate scheme of training for particular groups of trainees; • Deliver port-related training using the PDP materials; and, • Train other instructors using the revised PDP Chief Instructors Manual (2018 edition) and the new PDP 2 materials (2018 edition). CONTENT PORTWORKER DE VELOPMENT PROGRAMME 2 • Unit D1.1: Dry Bulk Terminal Operations; • Unit D1.2: Transport, Handling and Storage of Iron Ore; • Unit D1.3: Transport, Handling and Storage of Coal; • Unit D1.4: Transport, Handling and Storage of Bulk Fertilizer; • Unit D1.5: Transport, Handling and Storage of Grain; • Unit D1.6: Transport, Handling and Storage of Bauxite and Alumina; • Unit D4.1: Safe Working in Dry Bulk Terminals; • Unit D4.2: Safe Working on Dry Bulk Ships; • Unit D5.1: Operations of Quayside Gantry Cranes and Equipment; and, • Unit S1.5: Supervision of Dry Bulk Operations. RESOURCES O F THE TOT COURSE • ILO Chief Instructors’ Manual and • Instructor’s Guide. NUMBER OF HOURS: 100 learning hours